Seattle startups raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in the past week alone — for businesses as varied as pet sitting tech and a revolutionary leukemia treatment. What’s behind… Read More
Amazon made a surprise move this week: A new partnership with longtime retail rival, Best Buy. The companies are partnering on a new Smart TV that will run Amazon’s Fire… Read More
The fallout around data privacy scandals has put Facebook in a tough spot. After CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days testifying before Congress, what’s next? We dig into that question,… Read More
Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data. #DeleteFacebook is trending and those in the tech world are… Read More
Amazon cut hundreds of jobs this week, but the company is still increasing its workforce overall, and market value continues to rise — in fact, it became the third most… Read More
On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we go behind the scenes with GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook after their on-camera lunch with Anthony Bourdain. Also,… Read More
Seattle, home to Amazon’s headquarters, is officially in the running to be the home for its second HQ. Well, kind of. Executives from King and Snohomish County unveiled the Seattle area’s response… Read More
For anyone curious about the inner workings of Microsoft, Satya Nadella’s new book, “Hit Refresh,” is an interesting read. The Microsoft CEO is surprisingly candid and forthcoming in the book,… Read More
Patents are pretty unpopular in the software world, and this week one of the most unpopular patents ever — held by Amazon — expired. The patent was for the technology that… Read More
It was an unusually busy week for news in the world of business, technology and science. Join us on this episode of GeekWire’s Week in Geek podcast to catch up… Read More
It’s official: Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods will finalize Monday, and the tech giant is already planning big changes for the high-end grocery chain. The biggest change is aimed at… Read More
What’s your go-to streaming service? Netflix still reigns supreme when it comes to watching shows online, but Hulu, Amazon and others have been gaining ground. Now the field has two… Read More
There was a grab bag of interesting headlines this week, but we’ll start with a big change at one of the most recognized tech companies in the world: Microsoft. The… Read More
It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First up: Microsoft finally confirmed a big sales reorganization that will cut… Read More
You don’t hear many sonic booms these days, for good reason — commercial supersonic planes, which can travel incredibly fast while producing deafening sonic booms, have been banned in the United… Read More
Thursday morning, we awoke to a surprise: AmazonFresh Pickup, the company’s previously secretive grocery pickup service, was finally opening to the public — or to anyone who has an Amazon Prime… Read More
Alexa, Amazon’s artificial intelligence assistant, is getting smarter by the day. Her most recent trick is pretty impressive: users can now make calls between Alexa-enabled devices with a simple voice command:… Read More
Microsoft is known for its utility tools: Windows, Office and the like. What it’s not known for is design. But the tech giant has been working to change that, and nothing made… Read More
Are you ready to type with just your brain? Facebook revealed this week that it’s working with a team of more than 60 scientists around the world to develop what it… Read More
Starbucks and Amazon, two of Seattle’s iconic corporate giants, started off very different from each other. At heart, Starbucks is a chain of coffee stores, and Amazon is an e-commerce… Read More
You might have noticed GeekWire has been reporting — rather a lot — on a pair of secretive drive-up grocery store projects planned by Amazon in different Seattle locations. This week,… Read More
If you tried to use any service on the internet Tuesday, you likely discovered it was down. Now we know why: a small typo in an Amazon Web Services command… Read More
While the tech industry had never been particularly warm to candidate or President Trump, industry leaders made it clear after his election that they were open to, and in some… Read More
Seattle is proud of its growing virtual reality community and already boasts several promising VR and AR startups. But the young industry took a blow this week when startup Envelop VR… Read More